REPTILES

Corbett National Park

Sanctuary	Access	Accommodation	Season	Open	Animals/Birds
Corbett National Park (Uttar Pradesh)	245 km from Delhi	Annexe, Forest Rest House, Tourist Hutment (Dhikala) quality Inn, Tiger Tops, Claridges Resort.	November to May (Best time December to May)	Nov. to June	Mammals: Tiger, elephant, leopard, leopard cat, barking deer, cheetal, hog deer, yellow-throated marten, sloth bear, civet cat, rhesus macaque. Birds: King vulture, pallas fishing eagle, shag,erested serpent eagle, shikra, osprey, red junglefowl, kalij pheasant, black partridge,curlew, brown fish owl, great pied hornbill, little green bee-eater, golden-backed woodpecker, scarlet minivet, black headed oriole, cormorant, darter, black necked stork, white breasted kingfisher, large pied wagtail. Reptiles: Indian python, viper, cobra, krait, king cobra, turtle, tortoise, gharial, mugger.

Keoladeo Ghana

Sanctuary	Access	Accommodation	Season	Open	Animals/Birds
Keoladeo Ghana (Bharatpur) (Rajasthan)	177 km from Delhi 48 km from Agra	Sarus Tourist Bunglow, ITDC Forest Lodge, Shanti kutir, Golbag Palace Hotel	November to February. (Best time August to October when Indian water birds are nesting).	Year round	Mammals: Wild boar, sambar, cheetal, nilgai, blackbuck, mongoose, otters, jungle cat, leopard cat, fishing cat, palm civets, jackals, hyenas, fox, porcupine, hare. Birds: Siberian crane, great and little cormorant, shag, darter, egrets, herons, painted stork, open billed stork, blacknecked stork, adjutant stork, spoonbill, ibis, sarus crane, dalmatian pelican, spotbilled pelican,white pelican, barhead gose, greylag goose, comb duck, spotbill, common teal, pintail, common shelduck, mallard, gadwel, pigeon, shoveller, demoiselle crane, common crane, coot, pheasanttailed jacana, painted snipe, chestnut-bellied sandgrouse, green pigeon, collared scops owl, paradise fly catcher, marsh harrier, crested honey- buzzard, laggar falcon shahin falcon, pallas fishing eagle, tawny eagle. Reptiles: Rock python, monitor lizard.

Periyar

Sanctuary	Access	Accommodation	Season	Open	Animals/Birds
Periyar (Kerala)	208 km from Cochin 160 km from Madurai and 258 km from Trivandrum.	Aranya Nivas, Lake Palace, Periyar House	September to May	Year round	Mammals: Tiger, elephant, sambar, barking deer, mouse deer, nilgiri tahr, porcupine, lion-tailed macaque, Nilgiri langur, bonnet macaque, Malabar squirrel, sloth bear. Birds: Darter, cormorant,osprey, kingfisher, great hornbill, grey hornbill, oriole, hill myna, racket-tailed drongo. Reptiles: Monitor lizard, python, king cobra,flying- lizard, flying snake.